His research suggests that his colleagues work fairly long hours (61 hours a week, on average), and that they spend, on average, only about 35 percent of their work weeks teaching.

The rest of the piece rounds up other surveys of faculty time use, showing work weeks in the 54 to 61 hour-per-week range. (Although they missed Jerry Jacobs’ work on this.) I was sad, although not surprised, to learn that I have five more hours a week of service to look forward to now that I have tenure. (I’ve been on sabbatical this year, so it hasn’t hit yet.)

I was also reminded of being on the job market with a one-year-old and not enough childcare. I had to be very efficient to squeeze out even a 40-hour week, and I started tracking my work hours on a calendar printout. I’m pretty sure that in my sleep-deprived, application-stressed state, I sent one of those sheets to the University of British Columbia. I hope the search committee enjoyed the peek into the nuts and bolts of my work life.